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BELLA'S POV

"What?" I asked. Somehow I couldn't quite fathom what he was saying. I was still a little mixed up in the head after the incounter with the strange girl and the Cullens, who I figured was vampires as well, thought they looked different than Damon. I guessed the girl had to be a vampire too. Everyone was. Jeez, where did all the humans go!

"My ex?"

The girl beside him giggled and that made my eyes go to her. I was about to turn back to Edward when I really looked at her.

Something about her face felt like a slap in the face. My eyes widened and my breathing caught. That face. It clicked in my mind.

I knew her. Her name… her name…

Adalyn! That was it! And I used to call her 'Ada'

"You…" I started to say but my voice broke. "You're…" I tried again but failed once more.

I could feel myself slightly start to hyperventilate.

"Bella?" Edward said. "Are you okay?"

I nodded slowly and tried to get my breathing under control. I was in total shock.

"Yes, I'm…?" the girl, Ada, said encouragingly. Her face looked almost pained

"Adalyn," I breathed in what might have sounded like amazement.

She nodded and made hand gestures that signaled me to continue. "Yes..?"

I knew there was something else, something more to it but I could get a grasp at it. The words wouldn't get past my lips. I could feel the yearning, the want and need. I wished so much to say it because I knew it would mean something big to her.

"Ada, maybe we shouldn't pressure her," Edward suggested gently and laid a hand on her shoulder.

She shook her head stubbornly. "No, she knows. She does. I can see it," She said while keeping her eyes locked on me.

I figured that since I remembered her, even vaguely, then I must have known her before my memory loss. I had no recollection of the Cullens and… Damon. And that was because I had only gotten to know them in the last two-three years.

I ragged my brain for the person. The person she had been to me before all of this. What role had she had in my life? What was her connection to me?

Suddenly spots began to cover my sight and it became hard for me to breathe. Pain shot through me like fire and I felt my face screw up in a pained grimace. Without any warning I collapsed.

Edward caught me and a small part of my mind noticed how hard and cold his skin was. Nothing like Damon's.

"We have to get her inside. She needs to lie down and rest," Ada said firmly. They moved towards the house, me still being held up by Edward.

I shook my head weakly. "No, I'm fine. You don't have to do that"

Edward chuckled lowly. "Some things never change, huh?" he muttered.

When we got inside the house, Edward told Ada to grab my medicine from the table in the kitchen. I tried to protest, not very fond of the medication I had gotten. None of them listened to a word I said and I knew there was no point in arguing.

Edward let me walk by myself but kept a firm grip on my waist and arm in case I fell down again.

Swiftly, my eyes brushed over some of the photos placed on the dresser which was placed in the hallway just before the stairs.

One of the pictures showed two girls with their arms around each other and big smiles on their faces. One of them was me, I was sure, but the other…

I stopped, frozen on the spot. I gasped and pointed a finger at the picture and then turned to face Ada coming out of the kitchen with my medication clutched in her hand.

She looked confused for a moment but then her stare followed my finger, still pointing to the picture. The picture of her and me.

And then it clicked.

"You're my sister," I stated. It felt like my breath had been knocked out of me and it sounded like it too.

"I have a sister. A little sister," I spoke again.

My statement was rewarded with a huge smile which broke out on her face. Happiness filled her features.

Just then my body started to go limp again. I almost fell but Edward grip on me kept me standing. But my thoughts were interrupted by unconsciousness. My yes began to drop and I fought desperately to stay awake.

"Bella!" I heard someone say. The voice was far away and I couldn't keep my brain concentrated, couldn't keep myself focused.

At last I had to give in and let the darkness claim me.

"We have to call him." A girl's voice demanded. Ada.

"No, we don't. Stefan said it was best if we let him be." Whoever the guy in the room was, he clearly didn't agree with her. He sounded very much like Edward. And they were the two who had been with me before I passed out so it seemed obvious it was them who were arguing.

"But if she's hurting don't you think he would want to know?"

"How should I know? I have no idea how that guy's brain works."

"Wouldn't you want to know if it was me lying there in my fragile human body?" the girl asked fiercely.

No response came from the guy.

The voices grew quiet and I heard nothing after that.

I knew my eyes were closed. I could see the inside of my eyelids. In my head I knew that I should open them and let the two of them know that I was awake and could hear what they were saying. But I just couldn't. They felt so heavy and my body felt so tired and disconnected from my head. I would be happy to just go back to sleep.

"Jeez, you two can stop jabbering. I'm here, alright?"

I froze.

It was his voice. Damon. But… what was he doing here?

I tried to force myself to open my eyes and confront him or something but my body's stubbornness overruled. The only reaction was my heart rate which sped up at the sound of his voice.

"Her heart is beating faster. I think she's waking up," Edward commented. "Maybe you shouldn't be here," the last was spoken harsher than necessary.

"I don't care," Damon growled at him. "What exactly happened?"

"Well, she kinda found out who I am. She figured it out shortly after…" She stopped short.

Silence.

"After what?" Damon asked, waiting for Ada to finish her sentence.

"Well…" she hesitated. "Bella, kinda had a visitor"

"What?" Damon asked sharply. "Who? When?"

"The person came to her house and we arrived just in time to witness it," Edward explained.

"Who was it?" Damon demanded again.

They were silent for a minute. I could tell they were uncomfortable telling him about mine and that girl's, Katherine, little get together. Why on earth they were speaking of Katherine so strangely, I did not know. They all seemed to be very cautious whenever they were speaking of her or speaking to her.

"Who. Was. It?" Damon growled.

"Katherine," Edward answered reluctantly.

"What?" Damon snarled. "She was here? And she got in contact with Bella?"

"Well, yeah…" Edward started.

"Why the hell weren't some of you here watching her? Protecting her. Something," he asked furiously.

"Look, buddy, we had to meet, all of us, to talk about what to do about you," Ada spat at him, getting angry as well.

"'What to do about me'?" Damon repeated, outraged.

"Yes. While we had to worry about Bella, Katherine and your careless choice of action, you were out there having fun with the humans," she hissed the word 'fun' like it was poison.

To that Damon had no response.

"You were out there feeding or killing or whatever while we had to stay here and take care of things," she continued, snarling at him.

Suddenly, a feral growl were heard from someone, Damon I guessed, and then he spoke; "I did not kill anyone." he said fiercely.

"But you could have. And we worried our asses of because of that possibility," Ada spoke intently.

Damon sighed. "It was never a possibility."

"How can you be so sure of that?"

"Because then there would be absolutely no chance of things ever returning to the way it was before," He answered simply, sounding extremely sad.

I drew in a very deep breathe gathering courage to open my eyes and face them. Unfortunately, my lungs couldn't quite handle the expansion and without my permission a whimper erupted from my lips.

And then a major round of coughing started. I sat up in a rush in order to bring air into my lungs as I kept coughing. Oh, and not only did I insanely much and long, it also hurt like hell.

I moaned in pain that ached in my throat, lungs and ribcage. I clutched my arms to my chest, breathing hard.

"Ada, could you get the medicine and some water, please," Edward spoke fast and low but I somehow caught it.

I could feel hands on me and the warmth emitting from them told me it wasn't Ada or Edward touching me. I knew that a normal response to his touch would be to flinch away but I found myself wanting very much to lean into his embrace.

The bed moved under Damon's weight as he sat down beside me. His hands rubbed soothingly on my back and arm.

"Here you go, Bella," Ada kind voice came from above me.

I looked up and saw her standing in front of me with a glass of water and her hand cupped, probably because she was holding multiple pills.

I sighed deeply and automatically grimaced when my lungs and ribs protested at that. It seemed that my pains and injuries were so much worse now than right after I had gotten out of the hospital. In the hospital I had been on so many different medications that I did not feel the pain as much as when I got out.

But somehow the injuries wanted to make themselves extra known at the current time.

I, however, was still reluctant to take the pills. They always made me so drowsy and even more out of balance. And they made me tired enough to sleep and didn't want to sleep right now.

"Do I really have to take them?" I asked, sounding very much like a child who pouted because she couldn't have a cookie before dinner.

"Yes, you do," Ada said sternly. Almost in a motherly kinda way.

I felt a hand push back some hair from my face and settle it behind my ear. "It will help you get better," Damon murmured. "And we need that. I need that"

My eyes closed briefly as my eyebrows drew together.

I opened them again and reached up to take the glass from Ada along with the pills. When I got a hold of the cool glass, I noticed the water shake in it and I realized it was because I was trembling.

"Are you cold, Bella?" Edward asked me.

I shook my head. "No," I muttered.

I stared at the water for a couple of seconds before finally swallowing the pills. I grimaced and Ada let out a chuckle at that.

"'Atta girl," She said cheerfully and I felt a warmness spreading in me at her happy tone.

Damon sighed. "You said you weren't cold," he began. "Are you afraid?"

Something about that particular sentence made me freeze for a second.

I could hear Edward muttering something under his breathe but I had no chance of catching the words.

"I know I should be," I told them, slowly. "I mean, I know for sure that I was before."

I felt Damon wince beside me.

I shrugged and exhaled. "But for some reason I don't find myself… fearing you guys now," I ended.

"Why not?" Damon asked me intensely. I could hear the worry in his voice. Worry about me becoming frightened of him again.

I shrugged again. "I don't really know," I answered truthfully.

"Do you have a theory?" Edward asked and I could hear the smile in his voice as he spoke the words.

Once again, something about the sentence made me react. I couldn't stop the smile from forming on my lips.

"No, not really," I replied.

"Hmm… sad. Your theories are always so interesting to hear. Even if they aren't that creative. Getting your material from comic books isn't always the most reliable thing," Edward spoke, his voice laced in amusement.

I looked up at him, his words making my body react once again. "What?"

He just shrugged.

"That's for him to know and you to wonder," Damon answered and I saw his lips curl into a smirk that I was oddly familiar with.

"Like so much else," I muttered under my breath.

"I know it's difficult for you, Bella. I wish I could make it better for you," Ada said kindly. She was clearly suffering under this too.

Her features changed as she turned to Damon. "Something that I also wish, is to know where you went after the… very heated conversation with Bella?"

Damon glared at her. "That's none of your business," He told her coldly.

She crossed her arms over her chest. "Perhaps, but under normal circumstances it would be Bella's business. But seeing as she's not in a condition where such information should be bestowed upon her, the information has now become my business"

"I do not wish to discuss this at the current moment," Damon said, this time not so sternly. Ada's sisterly logic was working on him.

"Well, I do," She stated.

"Maybe we should wait a little to talk about this particular subject," Edward chimed in in a soft voice.

She rounded on him. "So now you're on his side?" she asked pissed off.

He raised his hands in defense. "I'm merely voicing my opinion. I'm on nobody's side"

I smiled to myself. "You're Switzerland"

All of them stopped their bickering and turned to stare at me.

I looked at them just as surprised as they were of my words.

"I have no idea where that came from," I said quickly, having a feeling of needing to defend what I said.

"She's remembering more and more," Edward said, sounding breathless. Which, for some reason, seemed weird to me.

My forehead wrinkled. "What?"

He looked at me almost with wonder in his eyes. "I've noticed that some of the things we say, makes you react. Not much but a little; A tiny flinch or a gasp or your heart rate changing. I noticed that the things you react to are things that have been said before. Before you lost your memory"

I was still a little confused. "What exactly are you talking about?"

"The thing about your theories, the 'Are you afraid?' and now the Switzerland comment. I think your memory is restoring itself," He exclaimed happily.

I looked to Ada and Damon. Hope was ignited in their eyes.

Then I looked at Damon closely. There was something about his appearance that seemed different. His skin had a healthy glow to it and without knowing for sure, he also seemed… more powerful.

He fed.

The though popped into my head without warning. I had no idea where it came from but all of the sudden I was sure that that was the reason.

Suddenly, I had the need to know something. I had to be sure.

"Did you kill someone tonight?" I asked him.

He flinched but dodged my question. "Tonight?"

I shook my head and waved my hand in the air. "Yeah, or whatever time it is," I had no idea, whatsoever, what time it was. I didn't know how long I had been unconscious. I had been night when this Katherine girl had showed up but light was coming from the window, so I figured it was the morning after. I must have been unconscious the whole night through.

He looked unwilling to answer but I had to know. I needed to know.

He sighed deeply. "No, I didn't kill anyone"

"But Alice saw blood in one of her visions," Ada interrupted heatedly.

Damon shot her a death glare. "Stay out of this, Ada. That was not what she asked about. She asked if I killed anyone, I did not, question answered, problem solved"

Ada shook her head furiously. "No, problem not solved. If you did not kill anyone then why did Alice see blood?"

I was confused. Alice? She was one of the Cullens, I remembered. She had been at the hospital. But what did Ada mean by 'visions'?

Damon stood from the bed in a flash. "This conversation is over"

"No, it's not. You can't just keep avoiding these things," Ada replied.

"Stay. Out. Of. This." Damon growled at her.

He looked back at me. I could see pain in his eyes. And quilt. Raging quilt. He didn't want to tell us anything because he was ashamed.

I opened my mouth to speak but before I got the chance, he was gone. Vanished into thin air.

Edward sighed. "Well, that went well," he said sarcastically.

A/N: So, Damon's back but feeling the power of quilt. Bella's slowly remembering bits but is not completely back to normal yet.

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